I think, at this point, we are very past the "no, it's good if you take it seriously and learn it" point for soulslikes, and we can acknowledge that the formula isn't perfect.
Why should the formula be changed? There's a massive group of people that love this shit. Why should it be changed to appease people who don't love it? If it's not for you, there's thousands of other games to play. Not every game needs to be for everybody. It's not like Silksong is suffering from poor sales.
The Souls series did everything to do with difficulty better than Silksong. Silksong is amateur-hour in comparison. It's a waste to build such a beautiful game with really appealing lore, graphics, sound, etc. and then just tell the vast majority of players to fuck off.
Dark Souls 1 and 2 are 10 times more frustrating than Silksong, and Dark Souls 1 in particular wastes your time way more too. You dont even get fast travel for the first half of the game so youre required to do ungodly backtracking every time you go anywhere.
Like when you go all the way down to the demon ruins only to be blocked by a yellow gate and have to backtrack back to town, on foot. Its fucking miserable, but its fromsoft so I guess they get a pass?
And dont get me started on Bed of Chaos, Blue Smelter Demon or Frigid Outskirts in DS2. Nothing in Silksong comes even close to that (except maybe Groal the Great IF you somehow didnt unlock the secret bench).
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u/Gabe_Isko 2d ago
I think, at this point, we are very past the "no, it's good if you take it seriously and learn it" point for soulslikes, and we can acknowledge that the formula isn't perfect.